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A blockchain isn't needed for that. Authentication needs "crypto"graphy, but not "crypto"currency. This wouldn't be a complete thread without someone mentionin
by howdydoo 5y ago
A blockchain isn't needed for that. Authentication needs "crypto"graphy, but not "crypto"currency.
This wouldn't be a complete thread without someone mentioning Rust, so I'll do it. cargo-crev is a nice web-of-trust type code review system for Rust crates. https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev
- awinter-py 5y agoI swear I'm not normally this person but I think if 'web of trust' means a database that is replicated in parts across many different computers and uses cryptographic signing to authenticate messages, you're describing the thing known to the bros and the gen-Zs as a blockchain
- Aea 5y ago"Web of Trust" predates Cryptocurrency / Blockchain by decades.
- howdydoo 5y agoWeb of trust just means "If A trusts B, and B trusts C, then A trusts C." Nothing to do with distributed databases/ledgers.
- mctaylor 5y agoBlockchain refers specifically to a linked-list-like data structure which utilizes cryptographic hashes at each node to store an authentication of the tail of the list on each head (node). If you have a similar structure using trees, it's a merkle tree. Replication + message signing does not imply either (necessarily).
- simlevesque 5y agoA blockchain and a cryptocurrency are two different things.